Why does anything need to be cut? :lol: Surely the more singles = more streams = more sales? Even shit like Bounce Back and Change Your Life will still boost the sales.

 

Just throw every single on it and rack up that future million seller sales.

Only the top 12 most streamed from an album count to its streaming sales anyway

I hope Cannonball is the last track. I get why it should be included given it was a #1, and has sold a fair amount but it won't fit anywhere else on the sequencing I don't think.

Only the top 12 most streamed from an album count to its streaming sales anyway

Ah, I didn't know that. Thanks. :)

Because then it's not Greatest Hits, it's a singles collection. I really don't think anyone is gonna miss One I've Been Missing and Word Up.

You know I’m gonna be that one person that’ll miss word up not being on this 😭😂

In a way to not cut Jesy out of the album cover they could have 'Little Mix: Greatest Hits' and the letters being made out of images of all four girls from the past 10 years, like a collage?

i'm hearing there's a greatest hits with a decent amount of new songs included

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Honestly, I know she’ll be on most of the songs, but I don’t think Jesy has to be on the cover. Especially if they’re billing it as a celebration of 10 years, I’m fine with it being the current lineup.

Honestly, I know she’ll be on most of the songs, but I don’t think Jesy has to be on the cover. Especially if they’re billing it as a celebration of 10 years, I’m fine with it being the current lineup.

 

This is what it has to be. She's no longer a member of Little Mix and she is not celebrating the 10th anniversary with them, so I'm not sure why people want her to be on the cover.

i'm hearing there's a greatest hits with a decent amount of new songs included

Ooh. " a decent amount of new songs" to me translates to at least 5?

Ooh. " a decent amount of new songs" to me translates to at least 5?

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This is what it has to be. She's no longer a member of Little Mix and she is not celebrating the 10th anniversary with them, so I'm not sure why people want her to be on the cover.

 

Well she was a massive part of Little Mix for over 9 years and scored 5 Number 1s with the group and 16 of their Top 10 hits. It'd be weird and totally wrong to completely erase her no matter what people think of her.

I think removing Jesy from the cover would be tacky, true she isn't celebrating the tenth year with them but she was a massive part of literally 9 years and 4 months - but I agree that it would look weird to put her on there?

 

I would personally just go for some form of graphic cover using the new logo, although looking at their past covers its going to be like 5/10 regardless

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Omg wow! I'd be shocked if there was that many new songs! Exciting!

Plus... Farrah wasn't on the Destiny Child's Greatest Hits and she was on 'Say My Name' and 'Jumpin, Jumpin' LOL

I think removing Jesy from the cover would be tacky, true she isn't celebrating the tenth year with them but she was a massive part of literally 9 years and 4 months - but I agree that it would look weird to put her on there?

 

I would personally just go for some form of graphic cover using the new logo, although looking at their past covers its going to be like 5/10 regardless

It’s not removing her from a cover that she was never on. To do a collage of old photos and crop her out would be tacky. To do a new photo shoot for a greatest hits were new songs are attached a member has left, is not tacky in my opinion. They could do graphic art but that’s not really their style.

I think they would be best just doing a cover without any of them on it! The most iconic and timeless looking greatest hits covers are those without photos of the group on them such as Anna Gold, The Beatles 1 etc. That way they are not “erasing” Jesy but are not obligated to have her on it. Then include a collage inside the booklet with all 5 and some new 3 piece photos.

Well she was a massive part of Little Mix for over 9 years and scored 5 Number 1s with the group and 16 of their Top 10 hits. It'd be weird and totally wrong to completely erase her no matter what people think of her.

 

Did you notice that in the video teaser they released, they had a picture of one of the three girls by each music video featured, but not Jesy?

So if they were to do a photo shoot for the album, they'd have to invite her? Or you meant they should use one of their old pictures? I mean, would Jesy even consent to their using her picture?

Like someone mentioned above, I guess the easiest way would be without their pictures at all. But I would still be happy if it's a brand new picture of the three current members, especially as there will be new song(s)

I wouldn't be against them using a 3-piece photo as that is, after all, the line-up we currently have. I'd love a new photo of Leigh, Perrie and Jade front and centre with perhaps a collage of photos from the past 10 years behind them? That's how they could still include Jesy while also noting she's not in the group now.

 

As mentioned above, the Destiny's Child GH album only shows Beyoncé, Kelly and Michelle, leaving out Farrah (part of the group for 2 singles) but more notably founding members LeToya and LaTavia who were on all singles from their first two albums (Michelle was only there for the second two). Kerry was left off the Atomic Kitten GH cover despite featuring on a couple of those tracks. The Sugababes GH is perhaps even more unusual - it has a photo of Keisha, Heidi and Amelle, but Amelle only features on three songs out of fifteen (two of which are new). No sign of Siobhan or more notably Mutya who features on the remaining twelve. It's just the way it goes with groups that have line-up changes, it can't always be representative.

 

On the other hand, there's Girls Aloud's first GH album which doesn't actually include a photo of them at all despite no line-up changes :lol: (just five small silhouettes as part of the collage design). If we stray into boybands, the JLS GH doesn't have a photo of them either! (and honestly both look kinda tacky)

 

The only examples I can think of where a GH cover has included a photo of a member who left are Take That's Never Forget: Ultimate Collection (which includes Robbie, though this only spans their early career and, I believe, he features on every single song) and S Club 7's Best (which includes Paul, who wasn't present on three tracks but he wasn't exactly much of a presence even when he was in the group).

 

tl;dr - it wouldn't be that unusual or strange if Jesy wasn't present on the artwork, as evidenced by the table below x

 

 

(for the purpose of the table, "current" means the line-up that was current at the time of the GH)

Great post Joseph. Very well put.

 

I think a cover of the current line up will be nice.

Agreed with Joseph, although 9 years is quite different to being in a group for a couple of years for example. However, it's clear Jesy is trying to distance herself away from Little Mix, so I don't think it'd be harsh for LM team to decide not to include her on the cover. I think it would definitely help things if the picture is a NEW picture of the three as opposed to an old photoshoot all 4 of them did and they just didn't include Jesy for example.

 

But we'll see, I guess. I'm so excited for this. I think it's going to be a pretty decent/big success for them in an age where Greatest Hits are deemed irrelevant to a lot of people. But it's worked just fine for The Weeknd (Highlights) and Mabel (High Expectations) recently.